# holen
## Breton
### Etymology

From Middle Breton holen, hoalen, from Proto-Brythonic *haluɨn, from Proto-Celtic *salenos, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls. Cognate with Cornish holan, Welsh halen, Irish salann, and more distantly also Latin sāl and English salt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhoː.lɛn/

### Noun

holen m
* salt

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦolɛn]

### Participle

holen
* masculine singular passive participle of holit

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːlən

### Noun

holen
* plural of hol

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German holen, holn, from Old High German holōn, holēn (“to fetch, get, draw”), from Proto-West Germanic *holōn. More at haul.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhoːlən/, [ˈhoːlən], [ˈhoːl̩n]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ho‧len

### Verb

holen (weak, third-person singular present holt, past tense holte, past participle geholt, auxiliary haben)
* (transitive) to (go) get, to fetch (to go somewhere and take something)
    Hol noch einen Stuhl!Go get another chair!
* (transitive, dative reflexive, colloquial) to get, to cop (to acquire, to buy)
    Ich hole mir morgen ’n neuen Fernseher.I’m getting me a new TV tomorrow.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

#### Derived terms

* abholen
* aufholen
* ausholen
* einholen
* erholen
* herabholen
* heraufholen
* herausholen
* herausholen
* herbeiholen
* hereinholen
* herholen
* herüberholen
* herunterholen
* nachholen
* rausholen
* rüberholen
* runterholen
* überholen
* vorholen
* wegholen
* wiederholen
* zurückholen

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: halac

### Further reading

* “holen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “holen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “holen” in Duden online
* “holen” in OpenThesaurus.de

## Low German
### Etymology

From Middle Low German halden, from Old Saxon haldan.

### Verb

holen (past singular heel, past participle holen, auxiliary verb hebben)
* to hold

#### Conjugation
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* hola

### Noun

holen m or f
* definite masculine singular of hole

## Old Czech
### Alternative forms

* hoľen (alternative writing)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golěnь.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈɣolɛn/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈɦolɛn/

### Noun

holen f
* shin

#### Descendants

* Czech: holeň

### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “holen”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* holeġn, holiġn, holiġ

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hulis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxo.len/, [ˈho.len]

### Noun

holen m (nominative plural holnas)
* (botany) holly

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: holyn, holin, holy, holly
** English: holly, hollen
** Scots: holin, hollin, holyn
* Middle English: holme, holm
** English: holm

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* jolen, diyolen, dyolen
* holens

### Etymology

From English hole in. Compare Tausug hūlin.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈholen/ [ˈhoː.lɛn̪]
* Rhymes: -olen
* Syllabification: ho‧len

### Noun

holen (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜎᜒᜈ᜔)
* (games) marble (small ball used in games)

#### See also

* marmol

### Further reading

* “holen”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018